Adenike and her partner, Debare, are expecting their first child. Adenike is healthy as are her two sisters but her brother has PKU, a recessive disorder of the PAH gene. Genotypically he must be pah-/pah-. Neither of Adenike's parents has PKU but both of her grandmothers did. Debare is a carrier of Sickle Cell trait, which means he has one allele for wildtype hemoglobin (HbA) and one allele for Sickle Cell (HbS), making him HgA/HbS. More importantly, he has two alleles for Marfan Syndrome, a pleiotropic dominant disorder that can affect up to 30 different traits (M+/M+). No one in Debare's family has ever had PKU and no one in Adenike’s family has ever had Sickle Cell or Marfan Syndrome. They consult a genetics counselor over concern of the health of their baby. The genetics counselor collects the medical histories of three generations; their grandparents, their parents, and them. In her calculations, she produces a phenotypic key that indicates M = Marfan, Hb = sickle cell, and pah- = PKU. Remember that a capital letter often means a dominant condition and a lowercase letter means a recessive condition. 1) What would be the best equation to use to determine the likelihood of Adenike and Debare’s child being born heterozygous for Marfan Syndrome, homozygous for wildtype hemoglobin, and homozygous for wildtype PAH gene? a)1 M+/M+ X ½ HbA/HbS X ¼ PAH+/pah-. b)1 M+/m- X ½ HbA/HbA X 1 PAH+/PAH+. c)½ M+/m- X ½ HbA/HbS X ½ PAH+/pah-. d)¼ m-/m- X ¼ HbS/HbS X ¼ pah-/pah-.

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Adenike and her partner, Debare, are expecting their first child. Adenike is healthy as are her two sisters but her brother has PKU, a recessive disorder of the PAH gene. Genotypically he must be pah-/pah-. Neither of Adenike's parents has PKU but both of her grandmothers did. Debare is a carrier of Sickle Cell trait, which means he has one allele for wildtype hemoglobin (HbA) and one allele for Sickle Cell (HbS), making him HgA/HbS. More importantly, he has two alleles for Marfan Syndrome, a pleiotropic dominant disorder that can affect up to 30 different traits (M+/M+). No one in Debare's family has ever had PKU and no one in Adenike’s family has ever had Sickle Cell or Marfan Syndrome. They consult a genetics counselor over concern of the health of their baby. The genetics counselor collects the medical histories of three generations; their grandparents, their parents, and them. In her calculations, she produces a phenotypic key that indicates M = Marfan, Hb = sickle cell, and pah- = PKU. Remember that a capital letter often means a dominant condition and a lowercase letter means a recessive condition.

What would be the best equation to use to determine the likelihood of Adenike and Debare’s child being born heterozygous for Marfan Syndrome, homozygous for wildtype hemoglobin, and homozygous for wildtype PAH gene?

a)1 M+/M+ X ½ HbA/HbS X ¼ PAH+/pah-.

b)1 M+/m- X ½ HbA/HbA X 1 PAH+/PAH+.

c)½ M+/m- X ½ HbA/HbS X ½ PAH+/pah-.

d)¼ m-/m- X ¼ HbS/HbS X ¼ pah-/pah-.

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